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Wave Systems and NTRU Partner To Offer Comprehensive, Cross-Platform Software Solutions To Trusted Computing Markets
Lee and Burlington, MA – Feb. 23, 2004 -- Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX) and NTRU today announced that they have teamed up to provide a cross-platform software solution for trusted personal computers. The secure software from the two companies is designed to work with multiple-vendor Trusted Computing Group (TCG)-compliant security chips now available for personal computers. By making available multiple-security chip software from each company, PC OEMs and chip manufacturers can have more options in the secure solutions they provide to customers.
The TCG Software Stack (TSS) from NTRU and the EMBASSY® Trust Suite of secure software solutions from Wave are designed to work on a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) from any manufacturer compatible with TCG hardware specification version 1.1b and next generation TPM’s compliant with specification 1.2. This interoperability gives the hardware manufacturer flexibility for their trusted hardware.
Wave and NTRU offer TPM manufacturers and PC OEMs a complete software solution from the device driver layer (NTRU) to the application layer (Wave). This complete software solution works with a TPM embedded inside a PC. The TPM serves as the secure core for an enhanced services platform specified by the Trusted Computing Group. TPMs provide the resources used by the software to implement secure functions within a PC.
“We believe the market for PCs containing TPMs is rapidly gaining momentum. Hardware providers entering the Trusted Computing market need security experts that are delivering innovative, leading-edge solutions and who understand the security and privacy requirements of this space. NTRU and Wave have extensive embedded security experience to provide hardware manufacturers and OEMs with a comprehensive and interoperable suite of infrastructure applications,” said Brian Berger, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Wave Systems.
"Our partnership with Wave underlines our commitment to providing comprehensive trusted computing solutions for all our clients," said Ed King, CEO of NTRU. "With Wave, we are able to roll out a solution for trusted computing platforms that helps our clients quickly and efficiently bring TCG enabled products to the market.”
The NTRU Core TCG Software Stack is designed in accordance with the TCG TSS standard and is enhanced with strong, standards compliant cryptographic libraries. The CTSS provides a set of software components that allows applications and peripherals to take advantage of a platform's TPM hardware module in a coordinated, consistent, and portable manner.
Wave’s EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) includes a suite of principal services and key management capabilities: Document Manager Vault for securing files and folders, SmartSignature for digital signature capability for secure electronic contracts, and Private Information Manager for secure storage and management of user names, passwords and personal information. Private Information Manager intelligently retrieves data for use in web pages, logging into web sites, or for filling forms.
Information about how to purchase the EMBASSY Trust Suite, Business Edition is available through Wave Systems at
www.wave.com/products/ets.html.
About NTRU
NTRU provides comprehensive security expertise to the embedded technology market. From system security analysis to highly optimized implementations on the most constrained platforms, NTRU provides practical security solutions that are tailored for specific application environments. NTRU's core competencies extend from development and evaluation of standards based security architectures and protocols, cryptosystem design and implementation of security solutions based on the NTRU algorithm suite and other major algorithms. NTRU provides state of the art services and solutions to a range of markets, including trusted computing, wireless networking, authentication products and general embedded security applications. Headquartered in Burlington, Mass., NTRU's investors include Texas Instruments, Sony Corporation, Macrovision, Lehman Brothers Venture Capital, Investor AB, Granite Ventures, Greylock and 3i. For more information, please visit
www.ntru.com.
About Wave Systems
Consumers and businesses are demanding a computing environment that is more trusted, private, safe and secure. Wave is the leader in delivering trusted computing applications and services with advanced products, infrastructure and solutions across multiple trusted platforms from a variety of vendors. Wave holds a portfolio of significant fundamental patents in security and e-commerce applications and employs some of the world's leading security systems architects and engineers. For more information about Wave, visit
http://www.wave.com.
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
Except for the statements of historical fact, the information presented herein constitutes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include general economic and business conditions, the ability to fund operations, the ability to forge partnerships required for deployment, changes in consumer and corporate buying habits, chip development and production, the rapid pace of change in the technology industry and other factors over which Wave Systems Corp. has little or no control. Wave Systems assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.
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